Word: thanklessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Power's comments are cut short. Martha Finnemore '81, corporate member of the IRC, has grabbed the microphone away from the Law of the Sea to read the statement on the 1 a.m. curfew. It is a thankless task. "The situation must be corrected if there is to be an HMUN next year." She is greeted by expletives and boos, and loses her cool: "You brought this upon yourself -- you're being a big pain in the ass and we don't like it any better than you do. This was not our idea...
...along the historic road from Beirut to Damascus, Syrian soldiers can be found, manning big guns and tanks by day, huddling beside tents and fires by night. "Lebanon is a thankless, difficult, lonely task," says one high-ranking Damascus official. No one knows that better than Assad's 30,000 troops, who at a cost of $3 million a day provide the bulwark of the Arab peace-keeping force inside Lebanon. In a land where there are more guns than people, violence and bloodshed are always near, ambush and assassination everyday occurrences. But without the Syrian presence the violence would...
...principal. Now, with her children grown, she lives in a suburb of Phoenix. Bombeck has been called the female Art Buchwald. A better parallel might be Bill Mauldin, the author of World War IIs Willie and Joe cartoons. For at bottom, she views the housewife as society's thankless foot soldier, engaged in countless small battles to preserve the family's besieged traditions and values. Despite her lightness and the overcuteness of her titles (I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression, The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank), she can flash genuine annoyance...
...sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child."-King Lear
There was less response as Carter acknowledged past criticism of his open-mouth style of public diplomacy. Yet he was applauded on the Administration's diplomatic role in the Middle East, which he described as "difficult and sometimes thankless and controversial-but it has been constructive, and it has been necessary, and it will continue...